Subject: Re: Linux (YDL) vs. Linux (Intel flavours)
From: Paul J. Lucas (pauljlucas@mac.com)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 08:15:33 MST
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Eric D. wrote:
> How do the Intel builds compare to the YDL for Mac (or the other Linuxes for
> Mac)? I presume there may be flavours that are simpler and have a more
> refined user interfaces than YDL or are they all effectively the same?
The only things distros do is repackage what other people have
written, write their own installers, and maybe mess around with
files in /etc. That's pretty much it. They do not make
kernels or UIs.
This seems to be the hardest thing for newbies to grasp. YDL
is *not* as OS. There is just one Linux kernel (modulo PPC
patches that people like Ben H. and Paul Mackerras do, but even
these are not YDL-specific: they are PPC specific and they
eventually get incorporated into the main Linux source tree).
XFree86 (modulo support for your particular graphics card),
WindowMaker, AfterStep, Gnome, KDE, etc, are all *exactly* the
same.
- Paul
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